His Excellency the President, who has been in the political world for many years, does not need to say those high-sounding empty words in the conference hall.

For example, the United States of America is now like a bank with strong assets and a flood of lending, which can not only use its own capital, but also use its prestige and reputation to coerce creditors and debtors into a team to fight back against the strong challenges of other economic entities. However, this kind of alliance is not without a little price, the client state itself is weak, but it is not a fool, if the leading big brother cannot prove that he has the strength to win this war, then what is the need to go to the trouble for it, and confront the growing power of the Eastern bloc?

In wartime, all the words are spoken with their fists, and after the defeat of the land and air forces, if the U.S. Navy, which dominates the world, is also useless, this is by no means a military defeat, but will shake the foundation of the edifice of the United States, which is by no means alarmist.

If the war is lost, once conventional forces become a joke, will it be possible to use nuclear weapons to unite people's hearts?

Of course not, it seems that the nuclear weapons that are destroyed are inferior, but the actual combat effectiveness is inferior, and everyone knows that "strategic missiles on the launch frame are the most deterrent", and this is what it means.

All in all, the great wheel of war marched all the way, and for the United States, if it was to hold its ground, it would inevitably require a victory that would stabilize the hearts and minds of the people and boost their morale.

Since the situation in the other two directions is in a stalemate in the whole world, the United States is not capable of launching a large-scale offensive in Western Europe and the Middle East, let alone guaranteeing victory in the land offensive (judging by the situation in the previous stage). It's simply impossible). As the main body and cornerstone of the global deployment of the US military. The U.S. Navy must shoulder this difficult responsibility and take the initiative to win a battle!

The general trend of the world is such that a joint meeting of closed-door negotiations lasted for a long time before it ended.

As the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces of the US military, he also has control over the ordinary situation during the war, and in fact, just before this meeting was convened, the Third and Seventh Fleets under the Pacific Command had already begun to take action, sending aircraft carrier battle groups to the depths of the vast ocean. Prepare for an attack on the far seas with the intent of inviting battle.

Before the formal resolution was made, the spearhead of the U.S. Navy had already pointed to the Kamchatka Peninsula, thousands of miles away, and the gathering of generals and staff officers to discuss was in fact only a step for His Excellency the President to seek support and unify opinions, and the real contest was already on the shipboard, which would soon set off a huge storm in the Pacific Ocean.

The storm is coming, and in the face of the ocean-going deployment of the US military, the response from the other side of the ocean is also very fast.

The sky is getting brighter. Through the dark clouds, a large gray sky beneath. Near the frozen Far Eastern coastline, in the open sea near Sakhalin, the sound of "creaking" and shattering is spreading in all directions.

In the cold winter, on the frozen sea, a large icebreaker with a black body and dark red below the waterline is running at full strength, with a heavy body moving forward, the bow of the ship crashing into the thick sea ice, rising high, and falling down with the "click" sound of a large piece of thick ice collapsing, leaving behind a large wide waterway with floating ice, always more than 100 meters wide.

Since the beginning of winter, icebreakers have been dispatched every day to patrol the Tatar Strait, breaking ice in the northern waterway near the port of Nikolaevsk, and the work of dredging the waterway has continued, not only to confuse and paralyze the nerves of the Americans through satellite reconnaissance, but also to pass through the port of Sovet in the last two days, and to use the shield of Sakhalin Island to go north into the Sea of Okhotsk, which has not yet been covered by a large area of ice. Then cross the Kuril Island chain and enter the vast Pacific Ocean.

Just three or four days ago, after receiving important information from the KGB organization, the two aircraft carrier battle groups of the US Navy's Third Fleet left port and headed for the depths of the ocean, and the Red Empire's maritime warplanes were quickly put into operation, and a formation consisting of the Type 1164 missile cruiser "Tajikistan" as the lead ship, the Project 1143.6 "Varyag" heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser and several escort ships quickly left port and headed north along the dredged Tatar Strait.

The sortie of the surface warship units seemed to be immense, but in the vast Far East it was only a small wave.

In the face of the US Navy's ocean-going operations, a large number of combat ships, including the 1143.5 "Tbilisi" and the 1143.6 "Varyag," entered a state of first-class combat readiness one after another, and after receiving orders from the fleet headquarters, they left the port one after another to deploy in the North Pacific.

Among them, the "Varyag", which had previously been stationed in the port of the Soviets together with its sister ship "Tbilisi", left in advance after refueling the ship and replenishing various supplies, and entered the Sea of Okhotsk along the open Tatar Strait, where it joined the convoy battleship sailing from Nikolaevsk.

The ships that met in the Sea of Okhotsk and formed a naval and air battle group together with the "Varyag" were the 36th Surface Combat Division of the Red Navy from the port of Nikolaevsk, including the Project 1164 missile cruiser "Ukraine", the Project 1134.2 missile cruisers "Tashkent" and "Tallinn", and the Project 956 missile destroyers "Tempest" and "Agile"; In addition, there are also the 44th Anti-Submarine Warfare Brigade of the Red Navy, which has recently returned to the sea and has been dispatched again after a short break, including four large anti-submarine ships of Project 1155, including "Admiral Tributs", "Marshal Saposhnikov", "Admiral Vinogradov", and "Admiral Panteleev".

After leaving the port, it went all the way to the east, and carried out anti-submarine patrols in the sea area scheduled to meet, and the ship formation to meet the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser also included the Type 1559V oil-water supply ship "Ivan Bubonov", as well as the fleet supply core, the Type 1833 comprehensive supply ship "Berezinhe" with a full load displacement of nearly 40,000 tons.

The lineup of surface ships is strong, and the attack nuclear submarines under the surface of the sea will naturally soon be in place.

After completing the rendezvous in the predetermined sea area, the "Tajikistan" and the rest of the ships that were on escort duty turned back one by one, and the Red Navy's second naval and air battle group, organized with the "Ukraine" as its flagship, went all the way east, crossed the Kuril Islands and entered the Pacific Ocean.

Compared to the sister ship "Varyag", the situation with Project 1143.5 "Tbilisi" is slightly more complicated.

Due to the relatively early construction of the design, use and maintenance are a kind of exploration-like existence, "Tbilisi", the first full-deck heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser of the Red Empire, has recently been plagued by the poor state of the main engine, although there is no problem in maintaining normal navigation, the output power of the crew is limited, and after theoretical calculations, the maximum speed can only be maintained below 24 knots.

With the war imminent, it was clear that the port of Sovet, where it was stationed, was not in a position to be repaired, and the "Tbilisi" could only leave the anchorage after some maintenance work and also go north along the Tatar Strait.

The two heavy aircraft-carrying cruisers, one in front of the other, chose to enter the Pacific Ocean by a tortuous northern waterway.

Although the relevant secrecy work was very strict, the Americans were well aware of this and did not need to engage in intelligence reconnaissance, because just after the outbreak of the Far East War, with the assistance of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force, a client country, almost all the natural waterways of the Russian fleet in and out of the main home port were cut off.

As far as the Pacific Fleet of the Red Navy is concerned, the Korean Strait in the south is flanked by Japan and South Korea, and the conditions for passage are very precarious, and it is basically a dead end.

Further north, the Tsugaru Strait and the Soya Strait are both close to Japanese territory and were originally under the control of the enemy; although after the previous stage of fighting, the surface warships of Hokkaido's air defense and Haizi have suffered enough from air-launched anti-ship missiles, and the JASDF and JMSDF, which have suffered heavy losses, have no power to fight back, but the cunning Americans have assigned submarines and small ships of the Maritime Self-Defense Force to operate in the two straits, laying a large number of mines in front and behind, and almost blockading the west coast of Hokkaido.

Mines are in charge, and even if minesweepers are sent to clean them up, these two waterways will not be able to pass through them for a short time, and although the warships of the Red Navy cannot get close, the Japanese, who were forced to throw mines into their own sea, have really been put on a side, and now there is nothing to think of except to secretly scold themselves over and over again.

Since ancient times, this kind of thing has been a habitual means of blocking waters.

The larger and more advanced the opponent's warship, the more fearful it is, and it can achieve its deterrent intention at a very small cost, but it has almost no losses of its own; On the other hand, it is easy to throw down such things as mines, but it is difficult to catch them, and it is one thing to try to lay them down as quickly as possible during war, but when the war is over, how to reactivate these important international waterways has become an extremely troublesome problem.

Of course, at the moment, the Far East is fighting inextricably, and in order to block the polar bear's warships in this small inlet in the Sea of Japan, what is it to throw some mines?

Once a war starts, any rules and bottom line can be used to weigh the pros and cons.

The Americans knew very well that if they really lost this all-out contest between the East and the West, they would have to leave the Far East and retreat to the Western Hemisphere to eat and die.

On the other hand, what if you can win?

Since the battle has been won, the drudgery of minesweeping can naturally be thrown to the vanquished. (To be continued......)